As organizations grow their Azure footprint, ensuring consistent monitoring coverage across resources becomes increasingly important. The new Monitoring Coverage (preview) feature in Azure Monitor provides a single, centralized experience to assess, configure at-scale, and enhance monitoring across your environment with ease.
A unified view of your monitoring health
Monitoring Coverage consolidates insights from Azure Advisor to highlight where monitoring can be improved. You can see which Azure resources already have basic out-of-box telemetry enabled and which could benefit from additional recommended settings, helping you close gaps in your observability strategy at scale.
Key capabilities
- Comprehensive visibility: Get an overview of monitoring coverage across common Azure resource types.
- Actionable recommendations: Identify and apply Azure Advisor recommendations at-scale to strengthen your monitoring posture.
- Centralized configuration: Enable recommended monitoring settings for multiple resources from a single pane of glass.
- Detailed resource insights: Explore individual resource details to review active monitoring configurations and applicable recommendations.
How to access
In the Azure portal, open Azure Monitor. Under the Settings section of the left navigation, select Monitoring Coverage (preview). You can scope the view using standard Azure filters; Subscriptions, Resource groups, Tags, Locations, and Resource types, allowing you to focus on the resources you manage.
Supported resource types
During preview, Monitoring Coverage supports Virtual Machines (VMs) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Support for additional Azure services will roll out in future updates.
Overview tab
The Overview tab provides a snapshot of your overall monitoring landscape, showing which resources have:
- Basic monitoring: Default metrics and logs enabled upon creation.
- Enhanced monitoring: Microsoft-recommended configurations for deeper insights and improved observability.
This view makes it easy to identify coverage gaps and take quick action to enable enhanced monitoring, which may incur additional cost depending on your configuration.
Streamlined enablement experience
When you choose to enable monitoring:
- The Enablement screen lists all resources included in the operation.
- You can deselect specific resources if needed.
- Selecting View details and configure allows customization by resource type—for example, selecting a Log Analytics workspace.
- The Review and Enable tab summarizes all changes before application.
- Once enabled, data typically begins flowing to the designated workspace within 30–60 minutes.
During this preview, you can enable monitoring for up to 100 resources at a time, and an existing Log Analytics workspace or Azure Monitor Workspace is required.
Monitoring Details page
For a deeper look, the Monitoring Details page lets you:
- View resources as a list or group them by recommendation.
- Filter using standard Azure filters.
- See the Monitoring coverage column summarizing enabled recommendations and data collection rules.
- Enable individual monitoring settings directly from this view when managing resources one at a time.
Share your feedback
We’re actively evolving Monitoring Coverage based on user input. To share your feedback or suggest new capabilities, use the Feedback link at the top of the page in the Azure portal. Your insights will help shape the future of Azure Monitor.
Try Monitoring Coverage (preview) today in the Azure portal to assess your observability coverage and take the next step toward proactive, consistent monitoring across your Azure environment.
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